The project

There is a need
for accurate, up-to-date and spatially referenced soil information. This need
has been expressed by the modelling community, land users, and policy and decision makers.
This need coincides with a enormous leap in technologies that allow for
accurately collecting and predicting soil properties.

We have formed a consortium that
aims to
make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging
technologies for soil mapping and predicting soil properties at fine resolution. This
new global soil map will be supplemented by interpretation and functionality
options that aim to assist better decisions in a range of global issues like food production and hunger eradication, climate change, and
environmental degradation. This is an initiative of the Digital Soil MappingWorking Group of the
International Union of Soil SciencesIUSS